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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Establishing Foundations | |
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| On Testing and Exploration | |
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| Two Sides of Testing | |
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| Essential Elements of Exploratory Testing | |
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| Working in Time-Boxed Sessions | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Charter Your Explorations | |
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| Chartering the Expedition | |
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| A Simple Charter Template | |
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| Good Charters | |
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| Generating Charters | |
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| The Nightmare Headline Game | |
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| Planning Charters | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Observe the Details | |
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| But Did You See the Moonwalking Bear? | |
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| Digging Deeper | |
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| Testability and Making the Invisible Visible | |
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| Consoles and Logs | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Find Interesting Variations | |
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| Variables Are Things That Vary | |
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| Subtle Variables, Big Disasters | |
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| Identifying Variables | |
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| Variables! They're Everywhere! | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Evaluate Results | |
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| Never and Always | |
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| Alternative Resources | |
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| Approximations | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Adding Dimensions | |
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| Vary Sequences and Interactions | |
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| Nouns and Verbs | |
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| Random Navigation | |
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| Personas | |
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| Explore Entities and Their Relationships | |
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| Recognizing Entities, Attributes, and Dependencies | |
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| CRUD: Create, Read, Update, Delete | |
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| Following the Data | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Discover States and Transitions | |
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| Recognizing States and Events | |
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| Diagramming a State Model | |
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| Exploring with State Models | |
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| Changing the Representation: State Tables | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Explore the Ecosystem | |
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| Diagramming the Ecosystem | |
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| Trust Boundaries | |
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| What If? | |
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| Follow the Data | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Putting it in Context | |
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| Explore When There Is No User Interface | |
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| Exploring an API | |
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| Exploring a Programming Language | |
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| Exploring a Web Service | |
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| Characterizing Bugs | |
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| Explore an Existing System | |
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| Starting with a Recon Session | |
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| Sharing Observations | |
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| Interviewing Stakeholders to Gather Questions | |
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| Selecting Techniques | |
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| Recording Your Findings | |
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| What About the Dreaded Unreproducible Bugs? | |
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| Explore Requirements | |
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| Getting into the Requirements Meeting | |
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| In the Requirements Meeting | |
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| Charter During Requirements Discussions | |
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| Active Reading | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Integrate Exploration Throughout | |
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| Exploring as Part of Your Test Strategy | |
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| Paired Exploration | |
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| Discovering Systemic Sources of Problems | |
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| Estimating Exploration | |
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| How to Tell When You Have Explored Enough | |
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| Debriefing Stakeholders | |
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| Capturing Useful Nuggets of Wisdom | |
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| Practice Sessions | |
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| Interviewing for Exploratory Testing Skills | |
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| Paired Exploratory Testing as Part of an Interview | |
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| Assessing the Candidates | |
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| Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet | |
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| General Heuristics | |
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| Web Heuristics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |